Do you want to teach a child about the life of the formerly enslaved Harriet Tubman (approximately 1820-1913)? Do you want to teach a child how people worked together to help people escape slavery in the USA in the 1800s? Do you want to share with a child, more about the life of this tiny, five feet tall woman, who helped the United States of America become free of the institution of slavery? If so, this picture book will provide some highlights about Harriet Tubman and her friends working together to help end slavery in ...
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Do you want to teach a child about the life of the formerly enslaved Harriet Tubman (approximately 1820-1913)? Do you want to teach a child how people worked together to help people escape slavery in the USA in the 1800s? Do you want to share with a child, more about the life of this tiny, five feet tall woman, who helped the United States of America become free of the institution of slavery? If so, this picture book will provide some highlights about Harriet Tubman and her friends working together to help end slavery in the USA. Harriet Tubman had help from God and her friends to complete the many tasks in her fight for the enslaved, women, the aged, and indigent people. This picture book provides answers to these questions while weaving together different elements of Harriet Tubman's life of faith in God, courage, and teamwork during and after slavery ended in the United States of America. It is an American story of healing in the land. While weaving together the story of Harriet Tubman and her friends during slavery and afterward, we are introduced to Quakers, Methodists, and other abolitionists who are networking together to help people run away from slavery. The story highlights Harriet's desire to help others experience freedom too with the help of her network of friends in the Underground Railroad. Some of Harriet's abolitionist friends revealed in the story are Frederick Douglass, the Reverend John Brown, and Sojourner Truth. Her friends are freedmen, enslaved people, Union soldiers, or members of the AME Zion Church. Read this inspiring picture book with a child to reveal what God puts upon the hearts of Harriet Tubman and her friends to do. Harriet Tubman is an example of someone who would not allow sickness, lack of education, or fear to keep her from fulfilling the call of her life. Instead, Harriet Tubman prayerfully does what she can, to be part of the solution, one event at a time, one day at a time until every task is complete. May this story encourage the reader to do the same, while seeing God's hand in the lives of Harriet Tubman and her friends. Let your imagination take you into the world of Harriet Tubman. May her dream for her people to be free inspire you to dream. May you dare to dream with God to improve the world around you, too. May your focus be assisting one person at a time, starting with yourself. May you complete one task at a time, one day at a time, with the help of God and the friends He puts on your path.
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